Table 1.

Participant characteristics in a study comparing patients with probable Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and controls (cuisine study) and a study of patients referred for workup of suspected dementia blinded to the results of olfactory testing (blinded study)

	Cuisine Study			Blinded Study
	AD	Controls	p-value	AD	not AD	p-value
Gender
Men	7	7	ns*	12	13	ns*
Women	13	13		12	13
Age (mean) (years)	80.9	75.4	0.001**	81.9	76.5	0.015**
(range)	(72–88)	(69–84)		(67–91)	(58–90)

*Chi-squared test

**Mann-Whitney U test